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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1961
Page
13
The Daily Times notes it cannot control respondents to ads for Jobs Wanted and Baby-Sitter Services. Parents should check references. children under 14 cannot be employed permanently. under 18 may not use power lawn mowers. State law restricts minor work. employers should consult their insurance agent about liability coverage.
A jumble of small ads lists numerous teens seeking babysitting jobs across Delaware County and surrounding towns, with ages 11 to 18 and hours varying by area. Names include Yvonne McGraw Chester, Helene Hasslepen Norwood, and Jerry Gilmore Media, among many others, offering or seeking services and sales of bikes boats and a 1950 Ford.
Fragmentary OCR notes advertise items for sale with contact numbers 2 3566 and 3 3599 associated with Lehigh and Kingswood listings, suggesting available goods or services pending further detail.
Ridley Township Recreation Board awarded $83,769 in contracts for playgrounds and improvements. The board approved audio-visual equipment, painting, masonry, roof and floor work at K-12 facilities, with bids from Eyler’s Ardco and Western Van Lambert in Philadelphia. Training, lunch, and luncheon events are noted, while some bids were eliminated for not meeting specs.
Linwood and Swarthmore items note a Daily Bible School at the Methodist Church on weekdays through June 30 with report-card day on Wednesday. Closing exercises are June 29 at 7 p.m. A combined Bible School picnic with the Sunday School outing is planned.
Prospect Park Civil Defense Director Edward Woelfel called for volunteers across divisions including education welfare security auxiliary police and medical evacuation. He listed roles from doctor and nurse to radiological detection and rescue with an internal rescue ambulance and urged qualified residents to contact 633 14th Ave.
Michael C. Palmer of New Castle says he was fired from the New Castle wage tax office after refusing to buy eight Lawrence County Democratic dinner tickets. The state claims political activity violation. Palmer says he resigned as a committee member and frame of dismissal. Ralph Audino denies pressuring him to purchase the tickets.
The postponed monthly Youth Center meeting occurs tonight at 7 30. It combines general members and the auxiliary. A cleanup and paint crew will be appointed to ready the building for fall opening this summer.
Eddystone inaugurates a play program for preschoolers with supervision by Nancy Covert and William Bowie as directors. The Rose Tree Union School District offers a six week elementary summer school at Indian Lane Junior High and Old Middletown Road with reading and language courses for Grades 3-6, led by Irene Pileski, Gene Soltner, Doris Melius, Ellen Tracy, and Robert Towson, enrollment $15 per subject.
Registration at Indian Lane Junior High on Monday from 8:30 to 11:50 am or by mail for Arden community playground season. A summer school for 7th to 10th grades at Indian Lane with music, business education, and core subjects runs Monday through Aug. 4, with separate registration days for Pennerest and Indian Lane students.
A posted notice in a Baltimore lunchroom reminds patrons that knives forks and spoons are not medicine and should not be taken after meals. The wording implies customer vigilance in a casual, everyday setting.
The small children's park will open Monday at 10 a.m. The program serves all elementary school children and is led by Miss Dorothy Taylor, the elementary principal in charge.
Four Swarthmore College faculty join a Danforth Foundation campus workshop at Colorado College with 28 liberal arts colleges. The program targets curriculum, administration, student relations, counseling, and values in education. Dr. Ostwald wins Fulbright for Greek studies in Athens. Prof. Swing and Mr. Smith lead the Delaware Music Camp chorus and orchestra at Wesley College.
Harrisburg AP Park H. Martin state highways secretary says he opposes increasing trailer length from 35 to 40 feet for safety on narrow streets and turns. Some manufacturers threaten plant closures if the legislature fails to act. Governor Lawrence to meet with the State Chamber of Commerce on the issue as bills to raise length sit in committees.
Governor Lawrence pledged his administration will back milk promotion efforts in Pennsylvania. At a luncheon he said the dairy industry’s growth benefits equipment, transportation, and packaging, and urged development of marketing techniques and uses for milk in consumer goods and recreation sectors. He praised the Milk Control Law as beneficial and workable.
Senator Joseph S. Clark told the Pennsylvania Boroughs Association that future boroughs will deliver higher levels of public service with sufficient funding. He predicted a nonmilitary boom driven by urban rebuilding and closer ties with higher levels of government to create convenient, beautiful urban areas.
The Senate voted 48 to 2 to implement Pennsylvania participation in the Federal Area Redevelopment Act. The bill empowers the Commerce Department and PIDA to work with federal agencies to fight unemployment in distressed regions. A second measure, approved 47 to 3, lets PIDA aid land purchases for industrial parks with 30 percent private and local funding split plus 40 percent state or federal support.
Dist. Judge Bert Trunks orders actress Hedy LaMarr to report to court for a hearing on oilman Howard Lee’s injunction plea. Lee, a former husband now married to Gene Tierney, seeks to bar depositions he calls illegal fishing expeditions. He says all issues were settled in their April 22 1960 divorce.
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